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The result of the discussion was: delete. MER-C 19:04, 21 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Portal:Jawaharlal Nehru (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Delete There are very few cases where a single individual meets the breadth-of-subject-area requirements of the WP:POG guideline, and this is not one of those cases. That this is a one-click-created single-page portal makes the deletion case even stronger. UnitedStatesian (talk) 18:40, 14 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete -
  • • There have been 36 average daily page views for the portal, as opposed to 7,969 daily page views for the head article.
    • This is a one-click wonder. That is reason enough to delete it or replace it, and there is no candidate for a replacement.
    • The nominator wrote: 'There are very few cases where a single individual meets the breadth-of-subject-area requirements of the WP:POG guideline'. I agree. The nominator continues: 'and this is not one of those cases'. I don't know. The subject of this portal is the founder of a great nation. User:UnitedStatesian Is that enough?
    • We should not be basing this decision on breadth-of-subject. There are other reasons to delete this specific portal. Therefore this should be a nomination without prejudice to a future portal in accordance with future requirements. Robert McClenon (talk) 21:16, 14 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. for two reasons:

1. Narrow scope: As the nominator notes, this is a narrow topic. Nehru was undoubtedly a major figure in Indian history, but we don't have enough coverage of the man and his works to support a portal. Instead, this portal is bloated by topics related to the administration of which he was the leader. Nehru was the Prime Minister of the cabinet government of a parliamentary democracy, not of a presidential democracy like the United States, let alone a dictator who ruled by decree.
2. Uncurated portal: Being pedantic, the nominator is slightly incorrect to say that this is a one-click-created single-page portal. It's a two-click portal. Still spam, but slightly more sophisticated spam.
   The portal was initially created as a navbox-clone, with its selected articles list drawn solely from Template:{{PAGENAME}}, which resolves to Template:Jawaharlal Nehru. That doesn't exist, so the first version of the portal[1] just had a Lua error in the "selected articles" box.
   16 days later, @The Transhumanist appeared and converted[2] it to use an embedded list, which is why it is listed in Category:Automated portals with embedded list. However, while list appears to be curated, it is simply an indiscriminate dump of the contents of the bottom layer Category:Jawaharlal Nehru and of the bottom layer of one of its subcats: Category:Nehru administration. This is the same issue as at numerous other similar MFDs, e.g. Volume, Drawing, Electricity, Julius Caesar, Habitats, and Shipwrecks. It's simply disguised spam. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 00:24, 15 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete: narrow topic, uncurated and abandoned, redundant fork of related navboxes. SITH (talk) 11:53, 17 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the page's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.